Rural setting

I was born and raised in a typical rural setting, where there were lot of trees, and neighbors' houses were quite a distance away. Trees were grown for fruits but to the kids, they were little hideouts, a place to test ones' agility, climbing up, swinging from branch to branch. We somehow grew up without many bones broken and scars.

Gardening I guess is a trip back to the rural settings, where sharing of space with plants are nurtured... or as the biology teacher said, we are inhaling oxygen exhaled by plants or rather leaves out of their daily chores of photosynthesis. And they inhale what we exhale.

Kaklong, my eldest sister is somewhat lucky to be in such setting. But her sons and daughters are everywhere, and I dont think any of hers will follow her footsteps. Hers are all urbanised!!... We really have to wait for many more years, before we will finally stay in our own house in Perak. A red roofed bungalow is currently rented out. Kakdah has alot in her mind, how we should mould the garden when we finally stay there. Many more years to go!!

The younger sister, Kakyah stayed in a 3 acre plot, surrounded with oil palm trees. Meanwhile my younger brother Yan, built a big house in one acre plot, a real haven with gajus [ cashew nut ] and tembusu trees not far. Bangmat the elder brother and other younger brothers, Man and Lan each got a house in a typical housing scheme.

Rural setting is so cool and sweet ....

Some trees simply grow too old
and has to be chopped down.
The pieces are saved.

Coconut husk, the outer skin covering the nut,
has to be peeled off.
These are dried up and kept.

slope treatment.
It is a normal sight,
where slopes are strengthened with coconut husk,
so heavy rainfall
cant erode the slopes.



Look at the coconut trunk...
Green Moss on one side explains a lot
about shade and sunlight....